Researcher Yuichiro Katsumoto, whom I met at Mobility 2006 in Bangkok, has created two new tools for looking and acting like a superhero, even if the only thing you're battling is the weather or a humdrum commute. The first, Amagatana, is ...Read More
Yup. Bring the real back to your life by making it hyperactive. Need a reason to use pencils? How about writing with incredibly long-lasting smells? Read More
There's an imagination-provoking post by Anthony Townsend at the IFTF's Future Now blog, about the implications of new biological materials, and how they might start affecting how we live, and what we live in. I see three main threads worth thinking ...Read More
Big Friend David Pescovitz has written a story of UC Berkeley professor Raja Sengupta's great proposed use of ever cheaper technologies, GPS and WiFi, enabled by network effects to create much safer automobility. The GPS enables a vehicle to monitor its ...Read More
The New York Times has an article about a national Korean agenda to push robots. "My personal goal is to put a robot in every home by 2010," said Oh Sang Rok, manager of the ministry's intelligent service robot project. Of ...Read More
